Entrance to the City Cafe

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Photograph by John Bentham.
Entrance to the City Cafe
Photograph by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1963, printed 2010
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 11/16 × 12 7/8 in. (22 × 32.7 cm) Sheet: 10 13/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.5 × 35.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2016.17.34
Not on view
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Provenance 2016: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson.
Markings Verso (stamp, red ink with pencil): "Printer / k [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / [star] / Picture Date 63 [in pencil] Print Date 10 [in pencil]"
Signature Verso, lower right (pencil): "D Lyon"
Inscribed Verso, upper right (pencil): "DLC 24"
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Cafe, from the series "Galveston"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967 (printed 2010)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2013.5.37
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
A Reade Street entrance to 187 West Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.49
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Cl…
Children at an apartment entrance, from the series "Uptown"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1965 (printed 2010)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2013.5.28
A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps, Danville, Virginia
A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps, Danville, Virginia
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.75
Photo by Dave Revette.
Entering prison, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.22
Main corridor, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Main corridor, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.23
Photo by Dave Revette.
Man with large tattoo of woman, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.27
Photograph by John Bentham.
Ella Baker, who called the 1960 meeting of student activists in Raleigh, North Carolina, that created SNCC
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.33
Photograph by John Bentham.
James Forman, like many of the SNCC field staff, was a powerful stump speaker. Here he works the crowd at the Danville mass meeting. An hour later he will be searched by police holding shotguns and automatic weapons
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.35
Photograph by John Bentham.
Outside, Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal wait to get in [a Nashville Tic Toc restaurant]
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.36
Photograph by John Bentham.
The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.37
Photograph by John Bentham.
Danny Lyon at Movement headquarters, Albany, Georgia
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.31